14 Bible Verses about Rashness

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Acts 7:24-25

Because he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended and avenged the man who was suffering ill-treatment by striking down the Egyptian. He supposed that his brothers would understand that God through his instrumentality was going to deliver them, but they did not.

Matthew 8:19-20

And a scribe came up and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

Matthew 14:6-10

But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the guests. Herod was fascinated by her, and so passionately promised to give her anything she might ask for. And she, prompted by her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head right here on a platter."read more.
And the king was sorry, but on account of his oath and his guests, he ordered it to be given her. And he sent and had John beheaded in prison.

Mark 6:26

The king, although exceedingly sorry, yet on account of his oath and his guests, did not like to refuse her,

Matthew 26:33-34

Peter answered, "Though all the rest of them stumble over you, I will never do so." Jesus said to him, "I solemnly say to you, this very night, before a cock crows, you will disown me three times."

John 18:10

So Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.

Acts 19:36

So, as this cannot be denied, you must be quiet and do nothing rash.

2 Timothy 3:2-4

For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent, lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God,

Acts 19:35-36

At last the city recorder quieted the mob and said: "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image that fell down from heaven? So, as this cannot be denied, you must be quiet and do nothing rash.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times. For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent, lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good,read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God, keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.

Luke 14:28-33

"What man among you, if he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see whether he has money enough to complete it? Lest, perchance, after he has laid the foundation but cannot complete the building, all who see it begin to make sport of him, and say, 'This fellow started to erect a building but could not complete it!'read more.
"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand? And if he cannot, while the other is still far away, he sends envoys and asks for terms of peace. "Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.

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Peter » Rashness

John 18:10-11

So Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus. Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Must I not drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

Rashness » Warnings against

Acts 19:36

So, as this cannot be denied, you must be quiet and do nothing rash.

Rashness » Examples of

Rashness » Instances of » David, in his generosity to ziba

Rashness » Instances of » Moses, in killing the egyptian

Acts 7:24-25

Because he saw one of them being mistreated, he defended and avenged the man who was suffering ill-treatment by striking down the Egyptian. He supposed that his brothers would understand that God through his instrumentality was going to deliver them, but they did not.

Rashness » Instances of » Paul, in persisting in going to jerusalem, against the repeated admonitions of the holy spirit

Acts 21:4

So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Because of impressions made by the Spirit they kept on warning Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.

Acts 21:10-15

While we were spending some days here, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. He came to see us and took Paul's belt and with it bound his own hands and feet, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says, 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and then will turn him over to the heathen.'" When we heard this, we and all the people there begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. read more.
Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus." So, since he would not yield to our appeal, we stopped begging him, and said, "The Lord's will be done!" After this we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

Rashness » Instances of » Josiah, in fighting against pharaoh-necho

Rashness » Instances of » Naaman, in refusing to immerse (lxx: baptizo) himself in the jordan river

Rashness » Instances of » Rehoboam, in forsaking the counsel of the old men

Rashness » Instances of » Jephthah's vow

Rashness » Instances of » When he struck the rock

Rashness » Instances of » Israel's vow to destroy the benjamites

Rashness » Instances of » Uzzah, in steadying the ark of the covenant

Rashness » Instances of » Julius, the roman centurion, in rejecting paul's counsel

Acts 27:11

But the colonel was influenced by the pilot and the captain of the ship rather than by what Paul said.

Rashness » Instances of » James and john, in desiring to call down fire upon the samaritans

Luke 9:54

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

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